Metallica My Way: Top Ten Metallica Songs

Old Metallica, New Metallica and everything in between. I will say first after a recent show of theirs, I did enjoy hearing the old stuff but was disappointed not to hear at the very least some in between stuff (St Anger, Load, Reload, Garage Inc).
Personally I didn't grow up on Metallica. I remember the early days of Metallica in high school. They were regarded as strictly as thrash or speed metal. If you liked thrash/speed metal, you didn't like anything else. I wasn't like that. I had a wider range of taste when it came to Rock/Hard Rock/Metal. At that time when they first came out I didn't really care for them at all. I was more into Classic Hard Rock/Metal of the Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Van Halen, Scorpions and Black Sabbath. It wasn't until the MTV performance of Enter Sandman that I went out and purchase my first Metallica cassette. Now of course the rest of Metallica followers thought Metallica sold out going Metal-Mainstream. I will also say every Metallica fan as well as Metallica themselves hate St. Anger. After watching Some Kind of Monster I see why Metallica hates the album. But as a fan I think it's one of their better albums. It progressed from the previous 90s albums. It fits perfectly in between the 90s albums and Death Magnetic. It's harder than the 90s stuff. Plus I never once heard a song from that album on local radio which is fine with me. NO overplay. Here's my Top Ten Metallica song. Some old, some new and some in between.

1. Of Wolf of Man
2. Frantic
3. My Friend of Misery
4. Shoot Me Again
5. Seek and Destroy
6. Eye of the Beholder
7. King Nothing
8. Some Kind of Monster
9. Cyanide
10. Sabbra Cadabbra

Check Jerry's Brain: Alice's Comeback

I will first admit I was very skeptical with the Alice in Chains comeback without the late Layne Staley. After his death in 2002 I was for sure that was the last of AIC. With the new Black Gives Way To Blue I wasn't even sure I would give it a listen. Now I will say after the first listen I was impressed from the very first song to last. Even though I feel some songs lose their way with thier new singer (which only appears on four songs). I will just say now Jerry carries the band now and with all do respect to Layne, Jerry carried more than I thought during the early years. The album opens with a little long All Secrets Known. A little dreary for an opening song. The song is only 4:45 but as slow as it is, seems a little too long to get the real opening song Check My Brain which is probably the best song on the album. Now on When the Sun Rose Again and Private Hell you can hear the haunting influence of Layne's voice. It's almost eery. The closing song is Black Gives Way to Blue which which is a personal tribut to Layne. It's a very sad and you can even feel the pain the band has and still is going through.

Better Than Expected:
1. Check My Brain
2. Your Decision
3. Black Gives Way to Blue
4. Take Her Out
5. Private Hell
6. When the Sun Rose Again

Skip throughs:
1. Last of My Kind
2. Acid Bubble
3. A Looking in View
4. Lessoned Learned

How come Slade doesn't get their due?

How does a band like Slade get their due. The Glam/Hard Rock group from Woverhampton, England has had some of their songs go on to become hits from other bands. Even catipulting a band like Quiet Riot into the stratosphere. Yes in the early 80s they had a MTV video hit with Run, Run, Away. But it seems not too many music fans every talk about them being a huge influence on other bands. I recently purchased one of their greatest hits albums and it's not bad surprisingly. Here some covers that I found:

Coz I Luv You - The Wonder Stuff
Cum on Feel the Noise - Bran Van 3000, Quiet Riot, Oasis
Goodbye to Jane - Van Halen, Britny Fox
Mama Weer All Crazee Now - The Runaways, Quiet Riot, The Fargone Beauties, and Mama's Boys
Run Run Away - Great Big Sea
Merry Christmas Everybody - Oasis

Top Ten Hard Rock Singer

1. Dave King
2. Rob Halford
3. Ozzy Osbourne
4. Bon Scott
5. James Hetfield
6. Ronnie James Dio
7. Axl Rose
8. Klaus Meine
9. Steven Tyler
10. Chester Bennington

Kiss: Do the right thing.

As we all know Kiss now has the lineup Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer in the makeup of Ace and Peter. Paul says that no band member owns their makeup Kiss character which last I read that wasn't true and that Gene and Paul own theirs. When you went to a Kiss concert you went to see Gene, Paul, Ace and Peter...not The Demon, Starchild, Spaceman and Catman. You went to see Ace's guitar smoke or hear him sing Shock Me or 2000 man. No distrespect to Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer. I understand what Paul is saying but any Kiss fan that goes to see them now will not be seeing in my eyes Kiss. You'll be seeing a "put together of musicians" version of Kiss. As for the new album Sonic Boom. I'm not impressed. Ace's new album Anomoly, although lacking lyric writing, blows the Sonic Boom away. His guitar work is heavy and on top of his game. His voice still sounds as good as ever. I didn't understand why Kiss re-recorded (again) their top hits and packaged them with the new Sonic Boom. Then again, that's Gene for ya. Bottom line...Tommy and Eric use your own makeup.

10 New Songs Worth a Listen

1. What? - Rob Zombie
2. Your Decision - Alice in Chains
3. Fox on the Run - Ace Frehley
4. End of the World - Dead by Sunrise
5. Broken, Beat & Scarred - Metallica
6. When the Lights Go Out - Cheap Trick
7. Headcrusher - Megadeth
8. A Right of Passage - Dream Theatre
9. Take Her Out - Alice in Chains
10. Modern Day Delilah - Kiss

Alice In Chains:Check My Brain